25 killed in Guatemala’s Fuego volcano eruption

According to the information given by the officials, approximately 25 people comprising of at least three children, lost their lives and nearly 300 injured in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four decades.

Volcan de Fuego, whose name means “Volcano of Fire”, spewed an 8-kilometer (5-mile) stream of red hot lava and belched a thick plume of black smoke and ash that rained onto the capital and other regions.

The charred bodies of victims laid on the steaming, ashen remnants of a pyroclastic flow as rescuers attended to badly injured victims in the aftermath of the eruption. It was the 3,763-meter (12,346-feet) volcano’s second eruption this year.

“It’s a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the El Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people,” Sergio Cabanas, the general secretary of Guatemala’s CONRED national disaster management agency, said on radio.

CONRED said the number of dead had risen to 25, from an earlier estimate of seven, including a CONRED employee. Some 3,100 people have been evacuated from the area.

According to the information given by the officials, approximately 25 people comprising of at least three children, lost their lives and nearly 300 injured in the most violent eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano in more than four decades. Volcan de…